{"id":451854,"date":"2026-05-16T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/451854\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:47:11","slug":"every-adult-i-knew-had-striking-ptsd-from-living-in-this-insane-time-seamas-oreilly-on-humour-the-troubles-and-the-tweet-that-changed-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/451854\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every adult I knew had striking PTSD from living in this insane time\u2019: S\u00e9amas O\u2019Reilly on humour, the Troubles and the tweet that changed his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Derry author on tackling Northern Ireland\u2019s past in his debut novel \u2013 and the tweet that changed everything\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Author S\u00e9amas O\u2019Reilly. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ Seamus O Reilly_10.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Author S\u00e9amas O\u2019Reilly. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Eight years ago, S\u00e9amas O\u2019Reilly was sitting in an office cubicle in London, inputting numbers into spreadsheets for a recruitment company. \u201cReally grim, really boring,\u201d is how he describes the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was coming up to lunchtime and the Derry native was scrolling online \u2013 something he spent too much of the company\u2019s time doing \u2013 when he saw a tweet asking for people\u2019s worst mess-ups at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Derry author on tackling Northern Ireland\u2019s past in his debut novel \u2013 and the tweet that changed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-451854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}